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A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition: Text, Translation and Commentary - Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean Patricia Ann Clark New edition
A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition: Text, Translation and Commentary - Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
Patricia Ann Clark
An English translation of a medical notebook belonging to a traditional healer from the village of Meronas in central Crete, Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis. It belongs to the genre of latrosophia: practical manuals of collected healing wisdom, dating mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries.
260 pages, includes 5 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 28, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754661016 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 19 mm · 703 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Touwaide, Dr. Alain |